Editorial April 27, 1946 Issue

Fact Finding

Margaret Morrison

Where are facts to be found? Vital, dependable, and harmony-producing facts? In ledgers, bank balances, human living conditions, all of which change from year to year, from day to day, with changing thought and standards? To this question human sense may answer, Yes, where else should one look for facts but in figures and conditions? Materialistic theories, false values, deadened sensibilities, questionable ethics and morals may seem to produce what are called facts and present their testimony of industrial unrest, hunger, disease, and death as irrefutable evidence. But human sense deals only with effects, not with cause, and so never really deals with facts, never permanently disposes of its troubles or heals its ills. It does not, in spite of its so-called scientific advancements, scientifically destroy the evils it combats; rather does it seem at times to make more stupendous problems for itself, the solution of which it must seek outside the realm of physics in divine metaphysics, where alone real facts may be found.

These metaphysical, scientific facts, though of Spirit, are not mysterious or supernatural, complicated or difficult to understand. They do not require special intellectual attainments. They are easily found. They can be unmistakably demonstrated by anyone who in sincerity and purity of heart seeks for them, finds and obeys them.

Christ Jesus was the most scientific thinker, the greatest fact finder, fact demonstrator, the world has ever known. Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, says of him in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 313), "He plunged beneath the material surface of things, and found the spiritual cause." Because he understood spiritual facts and their power, he proved his dominion over their counterfeits, over the seeming facts and the ills of materiality.

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